Viewpoints 9

Thanks for following Viewpoints 9! As of September 1, 2016 we have relocated to our new home: Viewpoints9.com Look forward to seeing you there! Our previous cycles of work are st...

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Viewpoints 9 is proud to announce a special exhibition of contemporary fiber art selected from each of our original 2012 and 2013 challenges. The exhibit will be held at the International Hou...

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V9 Sudoku Nine artists, nine challenges, eighteen months later.......this is the final post for this Viewpoints 9 blog. What a wonderful experience it has been!   I think we all agree th...

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It's hard for me to believe this is the final challenge in our first 18-month cycle.....and Mary really picked an interesting one, "to create a work of any aspect of nature with unexpected an...

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by Misik Kim After working, many pieces are left. I did not throw away them. Put these pieces in the box and were stored. So there are a lot of boxes in my studio. Some of them are ...

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Tangerine Trees I took a watercolor class at the library about ten years ago and the instructor challenged the students to be bold with color. She said if you looked hard enough, you could f...

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by Lin Hsin-Chen Global warming becomes even more serious in summer 2013. Human beings are luckily enough to be able to hide into an air-conditioned room to regulate body temperature. The p...

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This is literally what Mary Pal posed to the group on July 1: For this final challenge in the first series, we will focus on the area of Naturalistic Intelligence (good at appreciating the wo...

http://viewpoints9.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-problem-with-being-literalist.html

Echinoderms R Us For this challenge, I reverted to one of my favorite phylums- the echinoderms. Something about the radial symmetry attracts me, or maybe it's the abundance of circular patt...

http://viewpoints9.blogspot.com/2013/08/purple-urchin.html

For the 9th challenge, I remembered how much fun it was (still is) to open a new box of crayons, knowing I could use those 64 colors to bring drawings to life, going inside or outside the line...

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I had fun with this challenge and in the end trying to come up with a title for my quilt, with the family helping was a fun event too! Where's Jack Artist statement: NEWS FLASH- GIANT B...

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Equus - 24 x 18 inches Equus - detail When I saw the original photo of this lovely chestnut draft horse, I was, of course, drawn to the texture of his mane. And this challenge, with the ...

http://viewpoints9.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-horse-of-different-color.html

Here we are, completing our first full cycle of nine challenges. A year ago, Martha Wolfe pulled us all together from around the world to participate in a virtual fiber art collective focused on...

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what a great challenge for me. One of the reasons I enjoy exploring the microscopic world is that the pixilated renditions we typically see are man made- either colored by stains, or by comput...

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by Lin Hsin-Chen The quilting world in Asia is mostly under the commercial domination and this problem is particularly serious in Taiwan. There are fewer people in fiber arts that can set up th...

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Saturday I attended a quilt show looking for examples of Naturalistic Intelligence, our current challenge.  It was a fairly traditional show...but it was the only fiber thing going on locally. ...

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We've had a small red fox visit our backyard several times this summer.  I'm used to seeing little animals like rabbits, raccoons, even the occasional deer walking in the woods behind our house....

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Living in a sub-tropical region, I am very lucky to be able to grow a range of colourful plants in my garden. Seems that nature knows best when it comes to colour combinations? This is m...

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I came to art late in life after years of being convinced by teachers and siblings that I lacked talent. A dear friend Cindy was the first to say otherwise. After admiring one of her paintings,...

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STORM AT SEA The vast and increasing differences in our world climates gave me the idea for this work. Some areas are experiencing torrential rains this summer, while we here in the sout...

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by Misik Kim "If........", ©2013, Misik Kim I've never felt this challenge much harder then before. Easy to start, but felt increasingly heavy. To participate in this like challenge...

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Who? is the title of my quilt in the preconceptions challenge. I decided to concentrate on the preconceptions we can have about people based on their appearances. It's our outer wrapping of ski...

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This was a challenge to beat all.  I read and reread the description.  Have you ever had a situation about which you formed an opinion that was later disproved? Consider one of your past preco...

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One half of my family has been farming and ranching for hundreds of years.  It's part of our DNA.  At some level, when we look at land, we think "grow" something.  It's always been there with ...

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By Lin Hsin-Chen God loves us and let bad things happen in due course, giving us the opportunity to learn from mistakes and live a better life. I learned an important life lesson from a “pa...

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